Harry Kessler Quotes

#1. Count Harry Kessler noted laconically: "It's a sad New Year, the end of a catastrophic year and the beginning of what looks to be an even more catastrophic one.

Volker Ullrich

#2. This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting.

Rob Reiner

#3. What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

Harry Graf Kessler

#4. I'm tiny. I'm small.

Claire Denis

#5. I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Harry Graf Kessler

#6. It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

Harry Graf Kessler

#7. For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

Henry Hazlitt

#8. In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

Marsha Blackburn

#9. After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

Jessica Valenti

#10. Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Harry Graf Kessler

#11. People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

Lindsey Vonn

#12. In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#13. I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

Michael Heseltine

#14. I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.

Kodi Smit-McPhee